Today In History - October 28

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba
1636 Harvard University is established
1776 The Battle of White Plains
1790 New York gives up its claims to Vermont for $30,000
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin
1886 The Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland
1886 The first confetti/ticker tape parade in NYC – celebrating the new Statue of Liberty
1891 An earthquake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan and kills 7,300 people
1904 The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints
1914 The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
1918 Czechoslovakia gains its independence as Austria and Hungary break up
1919 The Volstead Act is passed by Congress: Starts prohibition
1922 The first coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
1929 the first child is born in an aircraft
1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1940 Greece fends off Italy's attack
1942 A train crashes into bus killing 16 people and injuring 20
1946 German rocket engineers begin work in the USSR
1948 The flag of Israel is adopted
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is elected Pope: John XXIII
1959 The Buffalo Bills enter the AFL
1961 The ground is broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium
1962 Khrushchev orders the withdrawal of missiles from Cuba - ending crisis
1965 The Gateway Arch (630' high) is completed in St. Louis, Missouri
1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews are not collectively guilty for crucifixion
1970 The US and USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
1971 England becomes the 6th nation to have a satellite in orbit
1981 Edward M. McIntrye is elected the first black mayor of Augusta, Georgia
1982 NASA launches RCA-E
1988 Jurors award $147,000 to a Tacoma parishioner who is seduced by her minister
1988 Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen, gives $10 million to University of Washington library

1017 Henry III (Roman Catholic German Emperor)
1510 Francisco Borgia
1585 Cornelius Otto Jansen
1689 Michel Mathieu
1733 Ignaz Franz von Beecke
1746 John Vaclav Stich
1789 Johann Schneider
1793 Eliphalet Remington: U.S. gun maker
1795 Leonardus A. Lightenvelt
1798 Henri-Jerome Bertini
1801 Karl Georg Lickl
1804 Pierre F. Verhulst
1805 John Thomson
1810 Adley Hogan Gladden
1818 Ivan Turgenev
1834 Dudley McIver DuBose
1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
1842 Charles Boissevain
1846 Auguste Escoffier
1884 Miloje Milojevic
1885 V. Chlebnikov
1886 Grigory K. Ordzhonikidze
1890 Andres Isasi
1893 Christopher K. Ingold
1896 Howard Hanson
1897 Hans Speidel
1902 Elsa Lanchester
1903 Evelyn Waugh
1904 Louis de Meester
1905 Harry Broadhurst
1907 Edith Head
1907 Lew Parker
1909 Adolfs Skulte
1909 Claude Bourdet
1909 Francis Bacon
1910 Arthur Altman
1910 Marie Dollinger
1913 Peter Glenville
1914 Jonas Salk: Inventor of polio vaccine
1914 Richard Lawrence Millington Synge
1915 Dody Goodman
1915 Richard Michael Fraser
1916 Jessie Kesson
1918 Harold Sheperdson
1919 Bernhard Wicki
1921 Peggy Kirk Bell
1924 Alfonso Montalva Montecino
1925 Leonard Starr
1925 Wim Keja
1926 Bowie Kuhn
1927 Cleo Laine
1928 Wim van Heumen
1929 Joan Plowright
1929 Narotam Puna
1930 Harry Gilbert Trythall
1930 John Henry Mayer
1934 Jim Beatty
1935 Folke Rabe
1936 Charlie Daniels
1936 Horst Antes
1936 Ted Hawkins
1940 Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov
1941 Curtis Lee
1941 Glenn Moore
1941 Hank Marvin
1942 Kees Verkerk
1942 Sharron Moran
1943 Randy Newman
1944 Dennis Franz
1947 Tom Fitzsimmons
1948 Ricki Lee Reynolds
1948 Telma Hopkins
1948 Valeri Viktorovich Baberdin
1949 Bruce Jenner
1949 Robert Mellors
1951 Ron and Don Gaylon (Siamese twins)
1952 Annie Potts
1952 Flavian Aponso
1952 Tommy Dobeck
1953 Lauren Tewes
1955 Bill Gates
1957 Stephen Morris
1958 Jay Don Blake
1959 Neville Henry
1960 Mark Derwin
1960 Robert Pukalovic
1962 Daphne Zuniga
1962 Peter Cantrell
1963 Eros Ramazotti
1963 Kevin Dineen
1963 Lauren Holly
1963 Lisa Bettio
1963 Robert Bailey
1963 Veronica Gamba
1964 Lenny Harris
1964 Paul Wylie
1965 Eric Floyd
1965 Jami Gertz
1965 Mark Carrier
1966 Andy Richter
1966 Benoit Hogue
1966 Juan Guzman
1966 Kaylynn Hick
1966 Lauren Holly
1966 Steve Atwater
1966 Tim Bogar
1967 James Joseph
1967 John Romero
1967 Julia Roberts
1968 Aleksandr Koreshkov
1968 Chris Oldham
1968 Ernie Mills
1968 Glenn Clear
1968 Rodney Thomas
1968 Shawna Molcak
1968 Stan Thomas
1969 Denny Fercho
1969 Pete Shufelt
1969 Troy Ridgley
1970 Bracey Walker
1970 Rob Hitchcock
1971 John Coker
1971 Nicole Green
1971 Tracy Hanson
1972 Calvin Jackson
1972 Chad Folk
1972 Terrell Davis
1973 Frank Juric
1974 Braden Looper
1974 Henri Crockett
1974 Joaquin Leaf Phoenix
1974 Leaf Phoenix
1977 Lara Antunes